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Monday, February 2, 2015

Encouraging the Remnant

Kopp Disclosure

(John 3:19-21)

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February 1, 2015.

That's when I saw
one of the dumbest calls by a really smart and successful head coach in the
history of the Super Bowl; almost as bad as the call made by the 221st General
Assembly of the PCUSA in Detroit (June 2014).

It's also when
the faithful women and men of Belvidere, Illinois' First Presbyterian Church
looked up, stood up, spoke up, and acted up for over two thousand years of
Biblical, confessional, constitutional, historical, traditional, and common
sense Christianity by unanimously amending and expanding its by-laws as
unanimously recommended by its session (see below).

In these days
when Jesus by the book is being insulted by the waves of carnality,
egocentrism, narcissism, political correctness divorced from God, and
navel-gazing ideology masquerading as theology, here is how one family of faith
is swimming/rowing/navigating against the increasingly and rapidly flowing
infidelities of our world, nation, and too many churches posing kinship with
authentic Christianity.

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ANNUAL
MEETING

The Annual Meeting of the
Congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of Belvidere, IL will be held
Sunday, February 1, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary. The purpose of the meeting will be to receive
the reports of our 2014 ministry, to approve the Terms of the Pastor’s Call, a
change to the By-laws (see below), and to conduct any others business that may
be presented.

Tim
Beattie, Clerk of Session

PROPOSED
AMENDMENT TO THE BY-LAWS

Of
The First Presbyterian Church of Belvidere, IL

ARTICLE
XVI – Amendments

1.These By-Laws may be amended
subject to the laws of the State of Illinois and the Constitution of The Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America, as long as they do not contradict Christianity as personified in
Jesus, prescribed in Holy Scripture, and upheld by over two thousand years of
Biblical, confessional, constitutional, traditional, historical, and common
sense Christianity, at any annual meeting or any special meeting
called for that purpose by a two-thirds vote of the eligible voters present at
such meeting, provided that a full reading of the proposed changes or printed
distribution of the same shall have been made in connection with the call of
such meeting.

2.The By-Laws may not be amended
contrary to or so as not to include the provisions of the Constitution of The
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.

Add:

ARTICLE XVII – Marriage

1.Marriage is the exclusive, covenantal
union of one man and one woman, which union was designed by God. Genesis 2:24 states,
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to
his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
Jesus Christ affirmed this in Matthew 19:4-6: “And He answered and said, ‘Have you not read
that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and
said, for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to
his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?’
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let no
man separate.”

2.This church shall faithfully
follow the scripture definition of marriage in the teachings and practices of
this church, and therefore, this church shall not officiate, solemnize, perform
or host a marriage or marriage-like ceremony involving anything other than the
union of one man with one woman as instructed by God.